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MAGAZINE Volume 38 Issue 3
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Mercury Company Chris Williams, Darshanpreet Gill, Katie Nguyen, Kisha Jarrett, Lauren Modica, Monica Choy, Shauna Hahn, Vin Shambry
OUR MISSION Artist Repertory Theatre’s mission is to produce intimate, provocative theatre and provide a home for a diverse community of artists and audiences to take creative risks. ANTI-RACIST STATEMENT Artists Repertory Theatre recognizes that we are a predominately white organization and operate within systemic racism and oppression, and that silence and neutrality are actions of complicity. We recognize the critical role the arts play in our culture and national conversation, and accept our responsibility to make positive change through our work, our practices, and our policies. We commit ourselves to the work of becoming an anti-racism and anti-oppression organization, and will work with urgency to end racial inequities in our industry and our culture.
ARTISTS REP gratefully acknowledges our theatre rests on the traditional lands of the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla and many other tribes who made their homes along the Columbia River. ARTISTSREP.ORG 2
DROP THE MIC AUDIO STORYTELLING with BACK FENCE PDX
Mercury Company
Dámaso Rodríguez, Executive Artistic Director J.S. May, Executive Director Kisha Jarrett, Managing Director
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Chris Williams Darshanpreet Gill Katie Nguyen Kisha Jarrett Lauren Modica Monica Choy Shauna Hahn Vin Shambry^
CREATIVE TEAM AND CREW
Host/Producer .................................................................................... B. Frayn Masters Host/Producer .................................................................................... Mindy Nettifee Sound Mixing Engineer/Producer ........................................................ Phil Johnson Line Producer ...................................................................................... Ashley Mellinger Music Composer .................................................................................. Al James Music Composer .................................................................................. Jay Clarke DJ (live event) ...................................................................................... Bobby D
RUN TIME: APPROXIMATELY 120 MINUTES WITH INTERMISSION
SEASON SPONSORS Ronni Lacroute David and Christine Vernier The James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation
The Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation Oregon Cultural Trust Oregon Arts Commission
Regional Arts and Culture Council
The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means is strictly prohibited. * Member of SAG/AFTRA Hg Member of ART Mercury Company + Actors’ Equity Association Candidate ~ Stage Directors & Choreographers Society ^ Artists Repertory Theatre Resident Artist # The scenic, costume, lighting, projections, and sound designers are represented by United Scenic Artists. This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatre and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
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PRODUCERS’S N o t e
The art of true, personal storytelling, is both healing and democratizing — and everyone has stories that need to be told and heard. Back on February 1st, 2020, Back Fence PDX opened its 13th season of live storytelling with a Russian Roulette show to a sold-out house at The Old Church. It was one of the magical shows where everything went right. A frank, hilarious, devastating story about new motherhood won the night (the triumphant return-to-stage of Shannon Balcom Graves), in a slate of win-worthy stories. Not only were we all moved and entertained, but we walked out into the night afterwards with that buoyant, hopeful, interconnected feeling that collective artmaking can sometimes give you. Not long after that Kisha and Frayn were having drinks at Hey Love Bar, and Kisha introduced the idea of Back Fence joining the Arts Hub. When Frayn called Mindy moments later to give her the news, there was literally no discussion – just a big HELL YES. Then, 2020 fully arrived, in its mature whirlwind form. We cancelled the rest of the season and entered into the great not-knowing. At some point in the summer, Kisha and Frayn continued the conversation, and Back Fence officially became a part of the Artists Rep ArtsHub. It could not have come at a better time, just as conditions have made clear how important art has always been for our collective well-being, and how necessary it is to re-imagine and re-invent systems that support and serve us all. The art of true, personal storytelling, in particular, is both healing and democratizing – anyone can tell a story, and everyone has stories that need to be told and heard. That’s how we will learn and laugh and cry it out and survive ourselves. All of us at Back Fence continue to feel crazy lucky to be a part of this joyful synchronizing of resources and power crystals with the team at Artists Rep and the other members of the ArtsHub. We are so excited to present to you our first collaboration – a storytelling show from Mercury Project II called Drop the Mic. And we look forward to getting to work on the new collaborations we’ve conjured up for 2021. Your Back Fence PDX producers,
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Mindy Nettifee
HOST/PRODUCER BIO B. Frayn Masters (she/her)
I decided at five that writing and performing was my thing. I convinced some neighborhood kids to perform with me (they somehow agreed) and convinced my favorite neighbor lady, Nancy, to hold the show at the bottom/stage of her railroad tie/stadium seating steps. I walked the neighborhood with a red wagon and sold tickets to other kids door-to-door. Nancy taught me to do a dance number and how to talk to the audience. I am still thrilled to be a performer, scriptwriter, copywriter, storyteller, and story/speech/performance consultant. Because all that wasn’t enough, I added making comedy and documentary-style videos along with voice-over acting into the mix. I am the Creator, Executive Producer, and Host of the Back Fence PDX live storytelling series. I was also the PDX Producer and a Co-Host for The Moth GrandSLAMs. Additionally, I was voted Best Storyteller/Spoken Word Artist for the 2015 Willamette Week’s Best Of issue. Samples of my literary leanings can be found in City of Weird, Airplane Reading, MonkeyBicycle 6, Hobart, and Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney’s Book of Lists. Oh, and, fun fact, I have read the screenplays for the first three Twilight movies about 30 times each because I wrote 500 multiple choice questions for each movie for a Twilight trivia app. I put most of the monies in my bank account as a story and speech writing and performing coach, voice-over artist, and as an animation and commercial scriptwriter and copywriter. I swoon for good juicy stories.
HOST/PRODUCER BIO Mindy Nettifee
Mindy Nettifee, PhD (she/her) is a poet, artist educator, and somatic trauma therapist. Her doctoral research is on the sensory capacities of the voice and the role of voice and language in trauma healing. She has been teaching creative writing and performance for more than 15 years, and currently teaches storytelling workshops for Literary Arts, produces and hosts for Back Fence PDX and The Moth, and directs the creative consultation firm Free Delivery. She has published three full-length poetry collections and the howto book on writing Glitter in the Blood. Her latest collection is Open Your Mouth Like a Bell (Write Bloody). She also writes posts about the moon(!) which you can get for free by following her on social media (Facebook & Instagram – @thecultofmindy). The mission of the ArtsHub is to create a cultural center by supporting Portland’s rich artistic ecosystem. Programs and services include: below market rates for rehearsal, performance, and meeting space; shared administrative work space for individuals and organizations; and production services such as set construction, scenic painting, and professional technical support from design through performance. Our goal is to help a diverse range of arts and community organizations thrive. We prioritize artists and organizations that support ART’s values of equity, diversity and inclusion, and seek to provide a home for artists and audiences to take creative risks. While the program’s origin six years ago was in response to an opportunity to share underutilized performance space, we have found that the most vital and lasting impact of the ArtsHub is the bustling community that has been formed, and the myriad ways it has led to the empowerment of local artists and the accelerated growth of participating organizations. On any given day, staff members and dozens of artists from multiple arts and community organizations are rehearsing, utilizing administrative support and meeting spaces, with chance encounters in shared spaces leading to increased communication and unanticipated future collaborations between organizations. In the 2018/19 season alone, over 1,500 events were held in our building by 42 local nonprofits, including 11 resident companies — 380 ArtsHub public events, 462 rehearsals, 422 classes, and 306 ART events. Our new facility is being designed so that the ArtsHub can include even more organizations than it currently serves.
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Photo by Lava Alapai
“IT’S BEEN A THRILL TO PARTNER IN MAKING THIS AUDIO PROJECT WITH THE TEAM AT BACKFENCE PDX.”
EXECUTIVE ARTISTIC D IRE C T O R ’S N o t e
“Since the pandemic fired every single performing artist in the world, the thing that got me out of the house and into my car was the incredible opportunity to do what I truly love and that was being a performer.” Vin Shambry, Storyteller and Resident Artist
Thank you for listening to Drop the Mic, the third release from AudioART, Artists Repertory Theatre’s venture into audio-only productions. Prompted to explore digital mediums by the shutdown of theatres across the world due to the Covid-19 pandemic, AudioART features the work of Artists Rep’s Portland, Oregon-based artistic company in collaboration with writers and performers from around the U.S. It’s been a thrill to partner in making this audio project with the team at Backfence PDX, the nationally-recognized award-winning storytelling series which has been featuring live, personal theme-based stories for packed audiences on Portland stages since 2008. On behalf of ART, I can say with great enthusiasm that we hope this is only the first-ever Drop the Mic and that the series will continue soon with new themes and stories in the podcast format until stories can be told once again before a live audience safely breathing the same air. Until then, we hope these recordings will introduce audiences from around the world to some of Portland’s vibrant, professional theatre makers and storytellers. Warmly,
Dámaso Rodríguez
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EXECUTIVE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S BIO Dámaso Rodríguez
Dámaso (he/him/él) is in his eighth season as Executive Artistic Director of Artists Repertory Theatre (ART), Portland’s longest-running professional theatre company, which became a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) under his leadership. Plays developed during his tenure have been produced in New York, Chicago, London, and throughout the U.S. Acclaim for ART developed projects includes the Dramatists Guild Foundation Award, the Edgerton New Play Award, NEA Funding, American Theatre Magazine’s Most Produced Plays list, and coverage in the New Yorker and the New York Times. In 2021, the Oregon Media Production Association honored ART with the Creative Innovation Award for the company’s pivot to digital mediums in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic. He is a Co-Founder of L.A.’s Furious Theatre, where he served as Co-Artistic Director from 20012012. From 2007-2010 he served as Associate Artistic Director of the Pasadena Playhouse, where he directed main stage productions and oversaw programming for the Playhouse’s second stage, including its Hothouse New Play Development Program. He has directed a broad range of new and classic plays including over 20 Artists Rep productions, along with work at the Pasadena Playhouse, Intiman Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater, Seattle Rep, A Noise Within, The Playwrights’ Center, The Theatre@Boston Court, Odyssey Theatre, The Blank Theatre, The Road Theatre, The Zephyr Theatre and Furious Theatre. Dámaso is a recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, the Back Stage Garland Award, the NAACP Theatre Award, and the Pasadena Arts Council’s Gold Crown Award. He was honored as a Finalist for the Zelda Fichandler Award by the Stage Directors & Choreographers Foundation and was named a Knowledge Universe Rising Star by Portland Monthly. His productions have received or been nominated for dozens of awards including the L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Award, LA StageScene Award, and the LA Weekly Theatre Award, among others. He is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and serves on the faculty of The Actors Conservatory at Artists Rep. Current directing projects: Magellanica (Audio Drama) by E.M. Lewis, The Berlin Diaries (Audio Drama) by Andrea Stolowitz, The Vertical City (Audio Drama) by Diana Burbano, Today is My Birthday (Audio Drama) by Susan Soon He Stanton, The Great Divide by E.M. Lewis in development at Artists Rep/Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Directing credits: Romeo and Juliet at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the World Premiere of We, the Invisibles by Susan Soon He Stanton for the Humana Festival of New American Plays, Kings by Sarah Burgess at South Coast Repertory, the World Premiere of Wolf Play by Hansol Jung, the World Premiere of Magellanica by E.M. Lewis, the World Premiere musical Cuba Libre by Carlos Lacámara featuring the 3-time Grammy nominated band Tiempo Libre, Portland premieres of La Ruta by Isaac Gomez, The Humans by Stephen Karam, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon and Everybody, Nina Raine’s Tribes and David Ives’ The Liar, the Northwest premieres of Carlos Lacámara’s Exiles and Nick Jones’ Trevor, the west coast premieres of Dan LeFranc’s The Big Meal, Charise Castro Smith’s Feathers & Teeth, 1984 by George Orwell adapted by Duncan Macmillan & Robert Icke, and The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart by David Greig; the U.S. premiere of Dawn King’s Foxfinder, The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder, The Miracle Worker by William Gibson, The Playboy of the Western World by J.M. Synge, at Artists Rep; Ruth & Augustus Goetz’ The Heiress (starring Richard Chamberlain), Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes (starring Kelly McGillis), Austin Pendleton’s Orson’s Shadow (starring Sharon Lawrence) and the reading of Ellen Simon’s Aunt Stossie’s Coming for Five Days (starring Marsha Mason & Mary Steenburgen) at the Pasadena Playhouse; the reading of Steven Drukman’s The Prince of Atlantis for the Pacific Playwrights Festival at South Coast Repertory, Clifford Odets’ Paradise Lost at Intiman Theatre; Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit, Tennessee Williams’ The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms, Bernard Shaw’s The Doctor’s Dilemma at A Noise Within. Furious Theatre credits include the Los Angeles premieres of Craig Wright’s Grace, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s Boom and Hunter Gatherers, Bruce Norris’ The Pain and the Itch, Yussef El Guindi’s Back of the Throat, Richard Bean’s The God Botherers, Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things, and the world premieres of Alex Jones’ Canned Peaches in Syrup and Matt Pelfrey’s An Impending Rupture of the Belly and No Good Deed, among others.
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“WE LONG FOR THE W OPPORTUNITY TO MEET IN PERSON.” — JS MAY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ART
ouldn’t we all take a do over for the last year? Hell yes! And yet, it has been an extraordinarily creative time at Artists Rep. Tonight’s Mercury Company Drop the Mic event – virtual storytelling with some of Portland’s best storytellers in partnership with Back Fence PDX is just one example. ART was recently honored by the Oregon Media Production Association’s Creative Innovation Award, "Despite their background in theatre, they managed to pivot into other mediums such as audio dramas and short films, (which ended up providing vital work for theatre makers, filmmakers, animators, and media makers in Oregon.” We are honored to receive the award. However, we also long for the opportunity to be in person — in ART’s new state of the art building — gathered at the bar, chatting, and listening to stories that open our minds. Yes, there is much to look forward to.
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STORYTELLERS & CREW CHRIS WILLIAMS Storyteller Originally from Michigan, Chris Williams (he/him) has been trapped in Portland Oregon for well over a decade now. Although he has a full time job and owns a house he still finds time to complain about life. He enjoys walking Bernie, his 8 year old Airedale Terrier, around town because people tend to talk to her and ignore him. He recently purchased a Peloton bike so that he can continue to eat whole bags of potato chips well into his 50’s. He is 1/3 of the Portland based Improv trio Broke Gravy and produces Front Porch Sessions, a very unique storytelling show that requires audience participation. Chris is a lover of good stories and interesting, funny people.
DARSHANPREET GILL Storyteller Darshanpreet Gill (she/ her) is a high school science teacher who frequently gets weepy when talking about how much she loves her students. It’s gross. She’s originally from the small farming town of Selma, California, but has been enjoying living in Portland for the past six years. She loves to travel and has been fortunate enough to travel to over 25 countries so far. Aside from that, she dedicates most of her time to rewatching The Office and maintaining her cats’ instagram (@ leoandmister).
KATIE NGUYEN Storyteller Katie Nguyen is a writer, comedian, and educator living in Portland, Oregon. Her writing has been featured in The New Yorker and she is a regular at Helium Comedy Club. Katie has performed on comedy festivals across the ARTISTSREP.ORG 10
country, teaches comedy classes at Helium, and has twice been named one of the Portland Mercury‘s Geniuses of Comedy.
KISHA JARRETT Storyteller Kisha Jarrett (she/her) is the Managing Director at Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, Oregon. She is a creative change-maker with a background in marketing and development throughout her ten-year career in Arts Management that has helped raise over $50 million dollars for various organizations and has a cumulative earned revenue of over $5 million. A Virginia native, she has lived all over the country but now calls Portland, Oregon home. Kisha is also a writer, director, producer, actor, musician, and storyteller. She has performed for both stage and screen, been a musician at SXSW, and has been a costume designer for the stage and television, and an independent bakery owner. Through storytelling, she has performed for the Moth (2017 and 2018 GrandSLAM winner), Seven Deadly Sins, Wildfang, and Back Fence PDX where she is a co-host and story producer. Most recently, Kisha was seen onstage at Portland Center Stage @ The Armory as the Headmistress in School Girls; or The African Mean Girls Play, a co-production with Artists Rep. Currently, she is working on her second feature-length screenplay, pre-production for a feature-length documentary (Black Girl in the Woods, documenting a hike-thru of the Pacific Northwest Trail) and an educational piece for the Oregon Bar Association (about the four black suffragettes in Oregon who deserve to have their stories told), postproduction on the first devised DNA:Oxygen short film (See Me), and writing her first novel. Kisha is proud to be a co-founder of the DNA: Oxygen program at ART. She is in the inaugural cohort of the LORT EDI Mentor/Mentee program and serves on
STORYTELLERS & CREW the LORT EDI committee. Kisha is on the Literary Arts Festival of the Book Committee and has served as an Event Producer for Oregon Media Production Association (OMPA), Children’s Book Bank, Boys and Girls Club, Artists Rep, Live Arts, MTV Woodie Awards, Invisible Children, World Monuments Fund, and School of Visual Arts. She serves on the board of directors of Global Works Community Fund.
LAUREN MODICA Storyteller Lauren (she/her) proudly made her Artists Rep debut with The Skin of Our Teeth. Local credits and companies include Portland Center Stage (Mrs. Cratchitt in Second City Presents: Twist Your Dickens, JAW 2014, Our Town), Vertigo/Anonymous Theater (Tituba, The Crucible), Defunkt (Ruth, In the Forest She Grew Fangs, Jessica, Undiscovered Country), Northwest Classical (Fool, King Lear), PAE (Queen/Belarius, Cymbeline), Willamette Shakespeare (Verges, Much Ado about Nothing), Rose in Gretchen Icenogle’s Trailing Colors and others.
MONICA CHOY Storyteller Monica Choy (she/her/they) is an artist, curator, and intuitive healer. Born and raised in San Francisco, Monica’s first introduction to the arts was through performance. She moved to Portland to study theatre and stage management. Concurrently, she began curating art shows for Compound Gallery and independently in Portland and Seattle. Monica has coproduced large scale art installations in Lucerne, Switzerland, New York City, Los Angeles, Portland, and co-created a traveling art and storytelling project called the Trading Tortoise.
In her own practice, art and life are closely interwoven. Spontaneous collaborations, experimentation, social practice, teaching, dance, and creative experiences are favorite mediums. Monica also works in fabric, dyeing, and sewing. She co-founded Action Studios, which provides workspace for 7 artists and is located in Portland’s N Industrial district. She is currently studying flower and gem essences, energy work, and channeling under the mentorship of Shayne Case. Monica believes creating community with others through art, food, storytelling, and self-defined spirituality are ways to make new patterns for living that lead to our collective healing.
SHAUNA HAHN Storyteller Shauna Hahn is a semiremarkable historian of nearly true things. She has been learning the craft of storytelling and memorybased writing through Literary Arts, Portland Center Stage and The Moth. She is a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, a wine lover and wine maker, and a 0.2 FTE Bon Vivant.
VIN SHAMBRY Storyteller Vin Shambry (he/him) is a published writer, acclaimed storyteller, International actor, and director. I am truly honored to be an artist in residence at Artists Repertory Theater for the last several years. This opportunity to be part of such incredible work in the Mercury Company has been something to breathe life creatively in our new world. He is a nationally recognized actor with Broadway credits, multiple national tours, and international performing experiences, including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Outdoor School a feature film based on a ARTISTSREP.ORG 11
STORYTELLERS & CREW story by Vin Shambry written and directed by IME ETUK. Vin’s published work is in the 2019 book Occasional Magic: True Stories about Defying the Impossible. My original piece of Flower Joy is about a child who becomes an adult, first caught in the tangle & traps of poverty and family legacy, and then learning that those things are different from what we see from himself.
PHIL JOHNSON Sound Mixing Engineer/ Producer Phil Johnson (he/him) is a painter and theatrical artist based in Portland Oregon. His recent productions include An Octoroon (Artists Repertory Theatre), Hands Up (Red Door Project), Elliot a Soldiers Fugue, The Antigone Project, A Lady Onstage (Profile Theater), Worse Than Tigers (ACT Theater/Red Stage), Contigo Pan y Cebolla (Milagro Theater), All My Sons and The Importance of Being Earnest (Valley Repertory Theater). When he isn’t designing or teaching Phil Johnson is traveling the world spreading art education to impoverished areas. He most recently taught theater in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. Phil Has a B.F.A. and M.A. from Ohio University.
ASHLEY MELLINGER Line Producer As a theatre artist and filmmaker, Ashley Mellinger (she/her) is committed to telling stories that reimagine traditional narratives and include marginalized voices without centering exclusively on their identities and trauma. She is an award-winning half-Korean actor and producer. After graduating from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and working in NYC for a decade, she moved to Portland, Oregon and coARTISTSREP.ORG 12
founded Desert Island Studios to increase artists’ accessibility to film resources. Recent producing credits include Dawn Jones Redstone’s proof-of-concept for her debut feature Noelia, and Roland Dahwen-Wu’s first feature Borrufa. Pre-pandemic, her writing debut L’Ortolan won Most Original Concept at the 2020 Portland Shorts Fest. Post-pandemic, she co-wrote and starred in the AAFL 72 Hour Shootout film, Vent (which won 2nd Runner Up, Best Editor, and Best Screenwriter).
BOBBY D DJ Bobby D (he/him) has been behind turntables in PDX forever. A teacher by day and dj by night, his resume includes work with Wax Poetics, FADER, Nike, Portland Mercury, Discogs, Soul’d Out, and beyond. His radio program Night School on XRAY FM explores the lost history of Albina’s soul and jazz musicians. Having evolved into the Albina Music Trust label and arts education initiative, this work has brought elder musicians back to the stage and produced an archive of late 20th century local music, photography, and film.
SPECIAL THANKS to Al James and Jay Clarke for their work on composing the music used in the recording.
Katie Nguyen
“I was a good kid, but at home it felt like I was treated as some kind of miscreant.” “I decided not to ask for permission and just make my escape plan.”
Chris Williams
“We were both just pleasantly rude to each other while our mutual friend just got increasingly uncomfortable.”
“Basically, highschool feels like a Shakespeare play that lasts for 4 years.” ARTISTSREP.ORG 13
Storytelling by Jason Rouse
I was asked to write about what storytelling has meant to me, and after I thought about it awhile I came up with this: It has meant a great deal. I was asked to elaborate on that because, “It has meant a great deal” wasn’t enough or whatever, so I will do my best. For, you see, I am not someone who shares. It’s not that I am a quiet person. I’m a talker – loud and often. I just don’t talk about myself, i.e. my feelings, my past, my fears, my failures etc. I don’t do it. Not really my thing. As a result a lot of my life sits inside me waiting for examination...rotting away maybe? Can that be a thing? Anyway. It has been through storytelling I have been able to examine my life, provide context for what came after, to clarify it and look at it plainly, warts and all. And there are warts. There are also, not warts...I mean, the “all” after the warts. Assuming that “all” is positive? I am not sure of how that expression
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works so I am going to move on. Forget what I wrote about the warts? I hate warts and don’t want you to be thinking about warts as I try to get through what I am going to try to get through. Okay? Great. EXAMPLE #1: My mother and youngest brother are both dead. Don’t worry, I’m okay. It’s just that I don’t speak of them, in any context, about when they were alive or dead, to my friends, family or even to my wife with any sort of, what a therapist friend once called, “a normal, healthy amount.” Yet when I am faced with telling a story about a favorite Christmas memory, what comes tumbling from my tongue? It’s of my mother sharing her love of music by slipping audio cassettes of Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd and Nina Simone into my stocking and instructing me on the proper way to ingest such things (it’s laying on your back in the living room, eyes closed, volume UP.)
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Why can I freely access this? Is storytelling some magic potion to grease the wheels? Who knows? EXAMPLE #2: I told a story about one time in middle school when I was on the verge of athletic glory only to be met with the most (and I do mean THE MOST) stunning turnabout featuring stomach cramping, pooped short-shorts, a steep ravine and a lengthy hide in behind some bushes. It closes with the most singular example of humanity ever to present itself to me. I am welling up thinking of it now. Until the moments before I told it I hadn’t thought about this consciously in almost 30 years. As I recounted the story, I was aware of how affected I was by this event and how it resonated and shaped who I was becoming. I’ve told stories about erstwhile sexual experiences usually ending in some kind of shame for yours truly, stories of surgery recoveries gone wrong, of dating a girl thinking I was dating her twin sister, of discovering a girl was physically allergic to me, of friends I loved who are no longer here. When telling these stories I discovered I am revealing that I am moody. That I hold grudges. That I push away people I love. That I feel myself to be not worthy of love. That I am continually in awe of the good fortune of my life. That standing before a body of strangers telling intimate details of my life has proved time and again to be a healthy, positive thing I can do for myself.
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I’ve learned that this is how I process grief. This is the way I cope with success and learn about my failures. This is how I can acknowledge my past to honor my future. But as much as I have gotten from telling stories, it’s listening to others’ stories that has enriched me further. Some of the best nights I’ve spent have been in the audience or backstage at a storytelling show. Hearing from people who pour themselves out is just one of my favorite things ever. I was lucky enough to co-host a storytelling show for a long time and there wasn’t a bad show in the bunch. Not by a country mile. Back Fence PDX and its subsequent iterations have been the gold standard for storytelling in Portland, and I wear being a former host and former storyteller as a badge of honor. Meeting all these terrific people and sharing in their lives for the briefest of moments will continue to be something I hold tight in my heart. Storytelling has meant a great deal to me. *** Jason Rouse is formerly a co-host of Back Fence PDX: MAINSTAGE show and a writer and announcer for Live Wire. He is currently a teacher, actor, and filmmaker living with his wife and small dog somewhere in NE Portland. He likes movies, pizza and thinks you look great tonight. Good job you!
STORYTELLING. TELLING STORIES. THAT’S WHAT WE DO IN THEATRE. Storytelling has long been a part of the human experience. Memories passed from one generation to the next. Recipes shared from one friend to another. Fictional characters coming to life on stage. While a lot has changed over the past year (wow, has it already been a year?!), one thing that we knew we wanted to keep doing - tell stories. And that is how we started the ART Quarterly Magazine. The day before our annual fundraising Gala and two weeks away from announcing our 202021 season. The world, and subsequently the theatre world as we know it, shut down for the foreseeable future. Our purpose as a theatre organization came to a grinding halt and we were left with the question, what now? We would need to find a different way to perform. We would need to find a different way to work. We need to find a different way to … connect and tell stories. ART Quarterly Magazine is a place for artists of all disciplines to share thoughts and ideas about their craft. The pages are filled with people that dug deep into their artistic hearts to share their passion and love for the creative space. It’s a chance to bridge the gap between the arist and you by providing a peek behind the curtain of the myriad of artforms you love. The first issue, Lifting BIPOC Voices, exclusively featured BIPOC artists. As the Black Lives Matter Revolution gained momentum we knew that our BIPOC community needed to be heard. It was a chance for them to tell their stories. We just published the second issue of ART Quarterly, Love & Sex. Sex can be intimate, it can be bold, it can be private, it can be in front of a camera or live. In whatever form, love and sex are part of a story that needs to be told. The theatre we make at ART strives to take an intimate dive into characters so that we can feel that spark, that glimpse, that moment of connection. So that we can hear their stories. These are stories written by and created for people like you and me. Subscribe today and continue to read the stories that make us ART.
Leslie Crandell Dawes Editor-in-Chief ART Quarterly Magazine
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OUR SUPPORTERS IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING, BUT WE CAN’T MAKE THEATRE WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF OUR INCREDIBLE DONORS. THE APPLAUSE FOR THE SHOW IS NOT ONLY FOR THE ACTORS, DESIGNERS, AND TECHNICIANS, BUT FOR YOU, OUR COLLABORATORS. THANK YOU! This list celebrates Artists Rep donors who gave $100 or more to the Annual Fund between October 1, 2019 and December 31, 2020. Join us in supporting the creation of outstanding theatre by contacting Kisha Jarrett kjarrett@artistsrep.org or by making a gift online at www.artistsrep.org.
GAME CHANGERS ($100,000+) Anonymous (2) James F. & Marion L. Miller Foundation Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Multnomah County Cultural Coalition The Oregon Cultural Trust Joan V Peacock Living Trust Robert & Mercedes Eichholz Foundation PRODUCERS ($25,000 - $49,999) Oregon Community Foundation Creative Heights Regional Arts & Culture Council Patricia Reser Shiels Obletz Johnsen The Shubert Foundation Cowlitz Indian Tribe, Education and Arts Fund ECONorthwest Grady Britton Advertising Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund PATRONS ($10,000 - $24,999) Anonymous (2) Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation, Arlene Schnitzer & Jordan S Julia & Robert S. Ball Jacqueline Becklund Michael Davidson Tom Gifford & Patti Fisher Hampton Family Foundation Arthur & Virginia Kayser The Kinsman Foundation Koener Camera Systems
OCF Joseph E. Weston Public Foundation Regional Arts & Culture Council Charlotte Rubin Richard & Marcy Schwartz Bill & LaRue Stoller John & Jan Swanson Ann & Bill Swindells Charitable Trust STAGEMAKERS ($5,000 - $9,999) Karl & Linda Boekelheide Bob & Janet Conklin Susan Gendein-Marshall & Lee Marshall Polly Grose Herbert A. Templeton Foundation Diane Herrmann Howard S. Wright The Jackson Foundation The Juan Young Trust Drs. Dolores & Fernando Leon J.S. & Robin May Steven & Linda McGeady Oregon Arts Commission, a state agency Portland General Electric Foundation Lorraine Prince Julia Rea & Jim Diamond Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust John Saurenman Rosalie & Ed Tank Doris Duke Charitable Foundation & Theatre Communications Group US Bank David and Christine Vernier The Estate of David E. Wedge
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DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE ($2,500 - $4,999) Anonymous Adelsheim Vineyard Advance Gender Equity in the Arts Andersen Construction Ankrom Moisan Architects Randy & Patty Bateman Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation Jeffrey G. Condit Norma Dulin & James Barta Barbara Holisky & Gary McDonald Anneliese Knapp Shawn Lee & Vonessa Martin Lever Architecture Mair & Hugh Lewis Jim & Eva MacLowry Carter & Jenny MacNichol Allen & Frances Nause NW Natural Gas Alan Purdy Steve & Trudy Sargent Drea Schmidt & Emilee Preble Schwab Charitable Marilyn & Gene Stubbs John & Sandra Swinmurn Wood Partners BACKSTAGE PASS ($1,000 - $2,499) Anonymous Ruth & Jim Alexander Phyllis Arnoff Glenda Beiermann Brian Benavidez Bruce Blank & Janice Casey Lesley Bombardier Lagunitas Brewing Company Sonia Buist, M.D. Molly Butler & Robin Manning Cleveland H. Dodge
Foundation Communicare Students of Roosevelt High School Anne Conway & Louis Baslaw Barbara & Tom Cooney Allison Couch & Tom Soals Marcia Darm MD & Bruce Berning Marvin & Abby Dawson Edward & Karen Demko Wolfgang Dempke in memory of Alise Rubin Susan Dietz Margaret Dixon Richard & Betty Duvall Carmen Egido & Abel Weinrib Mary Elizabeth Ellis Day Trish & Bennett Garner Dan Gibbs & Lois Seed Susan & Dean Gisvold Al & Penny Greenwood Curtis Hanson Roy Schreiber & Carole Heath Pam Henderson & Allen Wasserman Cody Hoesly & Kirsten Collins Mike & Judy Holman Mark Horn & Mark Wilkinson Lynne Johnston Kalberer Company Kristen & Michael Kern Carol Kimball Jody Klevit Kirsten & Christopher Leonard Robert A. Lowe & Michelle Berlin-Lowe Anonymous (2) Michael & Deborah Marble Tara McMahon Laurie & Gilbert Meigs Deanna & Wilfried Mueller-Crispin
THANK YOU! Nathan Family Charitable Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation Cheryl R. Neal Neilsen Family Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation Network for Good Kristine Olson Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation Patricia Perkins John Ragno Wendy & Richard Rahm Bonnie & Pete Reagan Robert Reed Thomas Robinson Richard & Mary Rosenberg Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation Miriam Rosenthal Dr. William & Susan Sack Dianne Sawyer & Richard Petersen Wayne D. Schweinfest Josie Seid Bert Shaw & Liana Colombo Phillip Smith James G. & Michele L. Stemler John Taylor & Barbara West Tonkon Torp LLP Marcia Truman Vanguard Andrew Wilson & Dr. Ronnie-Gail Emden Maureen Wright & Lane Brown Charlene Zidell SUPERSTARS ($500 - $999) Anonymous (2) Linda Apperson Susan Bach & Douglas Egan Ann Balzell & Joe Marrone Ms. Judy Bartha Richard & Leslie Bertellotti Bloomfield Family Fund Louise Bloomfield Bridgetown
Conservatory of Musical Theatre Nita Brueggeman & Kevin Hoover Merrily Burger Diana Burman Rick Cady Don Caniparoli & Sarah Rosenberg Charles & Barbara Carpenter Denise Carty & Roger Brown Family Fund of The Oregon Community FDN Marie Cattalini Stephen Early & Mary Shepard Ken Edwards Leslye Epstein & Herman Taylor Sherry and Paul Fishman Larry & Marilyn Flick Carol Fredlund & John Betonte Kyle & Charles Fuchs Beverly Galen Paul Gehlar Lynn Marchand Goldstein Melissa & Bob Good Gray Family Fund Great Oregon Tours Jamey Hampton Richard L. Hay Carol & Tom Hull Corey Schuster Constance Jackson & Xavier Le Héricy The Nathan Cogan Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation Jessie Jonas Richard and Jean Josephson Judith & Gregory Kafoury Mike & Margo Kalberer Beth & Chris Karlin Katie Jane Band David Katz Catherine & Timothy Keith Pamela Knowles Leslie Kolisch Jill Lam Bill & Shelley Larkins Reed Lewis Patty & Greg Mamula Linda & Ken Mantel Carol Marmaduke
Scott & Jane Miller Melanie Schnoll Begun Don & Connie Morgan Katherine Moss Joseph Murphy & C. Branson Michael & Dr. Whitney Nagy Joanna Nowak Cathy & Jack O’Brien Alfred & Eileen Ono Katherine Pease Olliemay Phillips Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club Jay & Barbara Ramaker Andrew & Peggy Recinos Michael Sands & Jane Robinson Dámaso Rodriguez & Sara Hennessy Dianne Rodway Charlie Rosenblum Carol Schnitzer Lewis Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation Ursula Scriven Norm & Barbara Sepenuk Vin Shambry Jinny Shipman & Dick Kaiser Scott Stephens & Leslie Houston Donald & Roslyn Sutherland Carole Whiteside Pam Whyte & Ron Saylor Rick Woodford Kathleen Worley INSIDERS ($250 - $499) Anonymous (2) Kay & Roy Abramowitz Gerry & Jory Abrams Chuck & Meg Allen Bob Amundson & Sully Taylor Kara Anderson Elizabeth & Stephen Arch Atticus Hotel Susan & Grover Bagby Matt Baines Jean Carufo Mike Barr George Bateman Pamela Berg in Membory of Glenda Goldwater The Big Foody Ann Brayfield & Joe
Emerson Kacia & Clark Brockman Corey Brunish Lauretta Burman Carol Burns Ms. Ellen Cantwell Tom Capps, in honor of Charlie Capps Cecile Carpenter Michael Chellis Valri & Vince Chiappetta John & Kathryn Cochran Laurette Cosby Leslie Crandell Dawes & Andrew Dawes Jim & Vicki Currie Christina DeYoung & Andrew Rogers Elizabeth & John Ehrsam Cheri Emahiser Donna Flanders & Carl Collins, in honor of Cody Hoesly Bernard Froelich Martha & Eugene Fuchs Amy Fuller Krista Garver Roswell & Marilynn Gordon Paul & Teresa Graham Theresa Graham Candace Haines Jeff Hamm Marlene & Clark Hanson Ulrich Hardt & Karen Johnson Joan Heinkel & Ben Massell Joe & Diana Hennessy Diane Herrmann Hotel deLuxe Joni & Bill Isaacson Ms. Cecily A. Johns Leslie Johnson Colleen Kelly Elaine & Ed Kemp Carol & Jeff Kilmer Ted Labbe & Kelly Rogers Robert & Helen Ladarre Jill & Tri Lam Nicole Lazo Roger Leo Richard Lewis & Meg Larson Noah & Dena Lieberman Jodi Lietz Leonard & Susan Magazine, REAL ESTATS Earlean Marsh
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Ms. Nancy Matthews Dolores & Michael Moore Susan D. Morgan VMD Linda Nelson & Ted Olson The Oregon Golf Club Senator Bob Packwood Duane & Corinne Paulson Sue Pickgrobe & Mike Hoffman Dee Poujade Julie Poust Karen & John Rathje Ed Reeves & Bill Fish Scott & Kay Reichlin Martha & David Richards Joanne & James Ruyle Rick & Halle Sadle Vincenza Scarpaci Curtis Schade Luan Schooler & Timothy Wilson Erika Schuster & Clay Biberdorf Luisa Sermol Doug Sheets Mary Shepard H. Joe Story Chen Subramanian Aaron Tabacco Robert Taylor & Maude May The Rotary Foundation Lynn Tobar Cyrus Vafi Jennifer Van Meter Gillian Wildfire Carol Ann & Patrick Wohlmut FRIENDS ($100 - $249) Anonymous (4) Michael & Deborah Aiona Alchemy Restaurant Alder Creek Kayak Susan Anderson Thomas Robert Anderson Kristin Angell Ruby Apsler ArborBrook Vineyards Herman Asarnow Arlene Ashcraft Nancy Ashton Katherine Atkinson Adriana Baer Thomas Bahrman Claudia Barnard Linda Barnes & Robert Vanderwerf Vicki L. Barron Sumann Laura Barton F. Blair Batson
Joanne & John Bauer Johnathan Beck Alan and Sherry Bennett Linda Blakely & Lou Fernendaz Catherine Blosser Jeffrey Bluhm Brian Blum Michael Simon & Suzanne Bonamici Evan Boone Jane Bottomley Risa Brainin John Braunger Bobby & Gabrielle Brewer-Wallin Margaret Bromley Nancy & Gerry Brown Marlene Burns & Jon Dickinson Sudarshan Cadambi Barbara Canavan Chuck Carpenter & Carl Brown Judy & Steve Carroll Sue Caulfield Nicholas Cernoch Rita Charlesworth Karl Citek Clackamas Repertory Theatre susan Climo Clinton Street Theater Elaine & Arnold Cogan Jonathan Cole Charlotte Corelle Harriet Cormack John Cornyn Corrib Theatre Mark Crislip Deborah Cross Howard Cutler & Pamela Echeverio Mr. Ken Dale Carol Daniels John and Liz DeBarro Becky Denham Sandra Denton Elaine & Bill Deutschman Dinah Dodds Norma Dody Jeanne & Lauren Donaldson Steven Dotterrer Anne Driscoll Joseph Eckert Lakita Edwards Laury Ellis & Kathy Fode Nevill Eschen Mary Fellows Steve Fenwick & Martha Wilson Mary Finneran Gillian Floren Denise & Robert Frisbee Juliane Fry
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Fullerton Wines Kay Gage & Ketan Sampat Joann Gilles George Goodstein Virginia and Jeff Graham David and Caroline Greger Lydia Grimm Stephen Haber Jan & Dave Halsey Val Harder Paul Harmon The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust in honor of Marcia Darm Adrian Harris-Crowne Meredith Hartley & Jeremiah Pyle Robert & Amy Hayes Maynard Hedum Doren Helterline Judith A. Henderson Sarah Hershey Jon Hirsch Kirk Hirschfeld Marlene Holder Lynette & Don Houghton Karen Hudnall Steve & Kris Hudson Deborah Indihar Colleen & Jeff Johnson North Country Productions, Alan & Sharon Jones Becky Gardner The Jupiter Hotel Erika & Tom Kane Steve & Anita Kaplan David Goldman & Merliee Karr Stephanie Kerley Schwartz Heather Kientz Margaret Kieweg Doris & Eric Kimmel Rev. Larry King PJ Kleffner Dahv Kliner Knot Springs Social Club Peter Kohama Priscilla & Tony Kostiner Penelope Kreinberg Bruce & Cathy Kuehnl Deborah Kullby Louise Kurzet Kristi Lamont Elyse & Ron Laster Mary Lavelle Mary Lou & Ross Laybourn Jeanette Leahy Clif Leonard Robert Leventer David D. Levine
Mari & Louis Livingston Henry C. Louderbough Jane Luddecke & Robert Anderson Christina Luther Jacklyn Maddux Robin Magdahlen Sheila Mahan James Hager & Michelle Maida Hager Jim & Midge Main David Mandelblatt Susannah Mars & Gary Johnson Maude May Deborah Jo McCoy Kathy McLaughlin Frank & Joan McNamara William Meyer Mary Middendorf Dale Miller Matthew Miller Ina Milloff Leila Moharram, in honor of Carmen Egido & Abel Weinrib Lois Montgomery Nate Moss Tim Neighbors Heidi Nelson Victo Ngai Robert Nimmo & Linda Jensen Patricia Oldham Peter Olson Oregon Helicopters Oregon Shakespeare Festival Oregon Symphony Kathy Parker Alan Pasternack Kate Patricelli Patrick Lumber Company Debra & Paul Pellati Justin Peters Kellie Petruzzelli Donna Philbrick Pike Road Wines Daniel Pollack-Pelzner Portland Center Stage Portland Japanese Garden Portland Opera Portland Spirit Portland Timbers Shannon Pratt Anne Prescott Gregory Pulver & Rick Woddford Rob Johnson Diane Redd & Dan Wilson Diane Redd Betty & Jacob Reiss Resonance Winery
Jesus Reyes Patricia Reynolds Judith Rice Charles & Judith Rooks Kathryn Ross Kurt Ross Rebecca Ross Beth Rubin Ellen Rubinstein Martin Salinsky & Erin Peters Jeffrey Sapiro William & Meredith Savery Pancho Savery Gil Sharp & Anne Saxby Craig Sayers Robin Selig Sally Sellers & Michael Subocz Mary Ann & John Wish Shap Shapiro Michele Sharp
Ariel Shattan Tiffany Smith Neil Soiffer & Carolyn Smith Dawn Sorem Linda Sowray Desta Spence Charles & Karen Springer Adrianne Stach William Steuernagel Kristin Stevens Cynthia Stowell Julia Surtshin & Richard Sessions Wenda Tai Gary Taliaferro Rick Talley & Mary Ann Barr Talley Leslie Taylor Megan Taylor Tektronix Jane Terzis
DONATIONS AND PLEDGES TO ARTISTS REP’S RISE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN Anonymous ART Guild Julie & Robert S. Ball Glenda Beiermann Nita Brueggeman Barbara and Charles Carpenter City of Portland Bob & Janet Conklin Anne Conway and Louis Baslaw Marcia Darm & Bruce Berning Michael Davidson Carmen Egido and Abel Weinrib The Robert & Mercedes Eichholz Foundation
Tracy Thornton and Ernie Conway Patricia Tidmarsh Dwight McFaddin Jane Unger Sarah Vhay Janet Vining & Eric Vega Pamela Vohnson & David Streight J. Wandres Janet F. Warrington Maureen K. Wearn & Frederick Wearn, MD M. Howard Weinstein Hilda Welch Karen Whitaker Megan Wilkerson Willamette Valley Soaring Club Claire Willett Susan Willis Carl Wilson & Evan Boone
Chris Wilson Amy Fuller & Frank Wilson Richard Winkel Joe Wonderlick Susan Woods Kathleen Worley Merri Souther-Wyatt Vincent & Emma Yoswick Jon Younkin
Hampton Family Foundation/OCF Beth & Chris Karlin Carol Kimball Dolores and Fernando Leon Len and Susan Magazine Nancy Matthews Shiels Oblitz Johnsen PLANAR Pat Reser Andrea Schmidt & Emilee Preble Leslie Houston and Scott Stevens Tonkon Torp Tonkon Torp Ann & Bill Swindells Charitable Trust Darci & Charlie Swindells David & Christine Vernier Frederick Wearn, MD
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STAFF Artistic Director: Dámaso Rodríguez Executive Director: J.S. May Managing Director: Kisha Jarrett ARTISTIC Producing Director: Shawn Lee Associate Producer: Kristeen Willis Director of New Works: Luan Schooler Dramaturgy Scholar: Pancho Savery Casting Director: Vonessa Martin Lacroute Playwright-in-Residence: Andrea Stolowitz Artistic Directing Fellow: Zi Alikhan Andrew W. Mellon Playwright-in-Residence: E. M. Lewis Resident Intimacy Choreographer: Amanda K Cole Resident Fight Choreographer: Jonathan Cole Resident Artists: Lava Alapai, Linda Alper, Adriana Baer, Ayanna Berkshire, Bobby Brewer-Wallin, Amanda K Cole, Jonathan Cole, Chris Harder, Sarah Gahagan, Sara Hennessy, Michelle Jazuk, JoAnn Johnson, Kevin Jones, Val Landrum, E.M. Lewis, Sarah Lucht, Susannah Mars, Michael Mendelson, Allen Nause, Amy Newman, Vana O’Brien, Rodolfo Ortega, Sharath Patel, Gregory Pulver, John San Nicolas, Josie Seid, Vin Shambry, Andrea Stolowitz, Andrea Vernae, Joshua J. Weinstein, Megan Wilkerson, Carol Ann Wohlmut, Barbie Wu ADMINISTRATIVE General Manager: Vonessa Martin MARKETING & DEVELOPMENT & BOX OFFICE Audience Development & Marketing Manager: Leslie Crandell Dawes Patron Services Manager: Christina DeYoung Data Analyst & Ticketing Sales Manager: Jon Younkin EDUCATION Director of Education: Karen Rathje PRODUCTION Production Manager: Kristeen Willis BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jeffrey Condit, Chair Pancho Savery, ViceChair Tom Gifford, Treasurer Patricia Garner, Secretary Mike Barr, Past Chair Julia Ball
Michael Davidson Norma Dulin Erik Opsahl Justin Peters Andrea Schmidt Michael Szporluk Marcia Darm, MD, Trustee Emeritus
Founded in 1982, Artists Repertory Theatre is the longest-running professional theatre company in Portland. ART became the 72nd member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) in 2016 and is an Associate Member of the National New Play Network (NNPN). Table | Room | Stage (T|R|S) was established in 2015 and is Artists Rep’s new play program whose mission is to develop and produce new work that vividly expresses Artists Rep’s aesthetic values. The mission of the ArtsHub is to create a cultural center by supporting Portland’s rich artistic ecosystem. While the program’s origin six years ago was in response to an opportunity to share underutilized performance space, we have found that the most vital and lasting impact of the ArtsHub is the bustling community that has been formed, and the myriad ways it has led to the empowerment of local artists and the accelerated growth of participating organizations. The Resident Artist title is offered by the Artistic Director in appreciation of each artist’s achievements with ART and in the spirit of continued collaboration. These multidisciplinary theatre makers are deeply committed to ART’s success, share organizational values, and participate in decisionmaking processes that impact the theatre’s mission and its future. Artists Rep’s education program is dedicated to developing theatre artists, students, business and arts professionals, and life- long learners at every ability, interest, and level of expertise.
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